Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett
UWA Publishing, $29.95 pb, 158 pp
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Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett by Kate Lilley
by Susan Sheridan •
Dorothy Hewett is a vivid presence in all her poetry. This selection from her life’s work opens with a poem written in her last year at school. It begins:
The dark fires shall burn in many rooms;
will they sometimes miss me with my
tangled hair –
still girls in dark uniforms … ?
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